Price+of+redemption
131ran|som — «RAN suhm», noun, verb. –n. 1. the price paid or demanded before a captive is set free: »The robber chief held the travelers prisoners for ransom. 2. a ransoming; redemption, as of a prisoner, slave, or captured goods, for a price. 3. a means of… …
132ARAKHIN — (Aram. עֲרָכִין, Valuations ), the fifth tractate of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud in the order of Kodashim. Mishnah tractate Arakhin portrays the system of votive donations that financed the Temple s maintenance – as distinct from… …
